Teacher: Mihaela Mladenovici
Class: 5A
School 186, Elena Văcărescu 15, Cihoschi Street
Lesson: Let’s Eat Healthily!
Number of students involved: 22
Time:50’
LESSON PLAN
LESSON AIMS:
• To raise the students’ awareness of the existence of a wide range of unhealthy products on the market.
• To encourage them to consume healthy food, organic if possible, food produced without the use of chemicals, artificial flavourings and harmful emulsifiers.
• To get them eat fewer sweets and to give up lollipops, crisps and candy which have nothing natural in them.
• To persuade them to give up drinking coke and other fizzy drinks which are a danger to their organism.
• To encourage them to have a balanced daily diet including cereal, fruit, vegetables, dairy products meat and only a small quantity of sweets.
• To encourage them to work in teams, to cooperate and communicate with each other.
MATERIALS:
Vegetables, fruit, cereal, sweets, artificial types of juice brought by the students, pictures with healthy/unhealthy food, glue, scissors, paper.
The students took part in the following activities:
Activity 1
Aim: to warm the students up, to motivate them for the lesson.
Procedure:
1. T asks them questions about what they have eaten lately, about what they ate before coming to school, etc.
2. SS speak about how they feel, energetic or less energetic and decide if this has to do with healthy eating habits.
Activity 2
Aims:
• to raise the students’ awareness of the existence of a wide range of unhealthy products on the market.
• To persuade them to give up drinking coke and other fizzy drinks which are a danger to their organism.
Procedure:
1. They discuss about an experiment they had to do at home: they had put a piece of chicken liver in a glass of coke and in the morning they observed the results.
2. SS compare their conclusions
Activity 3
Aims:
• To encourage them to consume healthy food, organic if possible, food produced without the use of chemicals, artificial flavourings and harmful emulsifiers.
• To get them eat fewer sweets and to give up lollipops, crisps and candy which have nothing natural in them.
• To encourage them to work in teams, to cooperate and communicate with each other.
Procedure:1. T chooses 2 desks: one for healthy food and one for unhealthy food.2. Each student places the food/the pictures with food on the right desk, explaining their choice.
Activity 4
Aim: to raise the students’ awareness of the existence of a wide range of unhealthy products on the market.
Procedure:
1. T guides SS in talking the vitamins fruit and vegetables contain
2. SS read the labels of products such as salami, sausages and processed cheese, finding out about the artificial ingredients these products contain.
Activity 5
Aims:
• To encourage them to have a balanced daily diet including cereal, fruit, vegetables, dairy products meat and only a small quantity of sweets.
• To encourage them to work in teams, to cooperate and communicate with each other.
Procedure:
1. SS cut out the pictures they brought
2. SS stick the pictures on bigger pieces of paper, showing which foods are healthy and which not.
3. SS put their posters on the noticeboard, in their classroom.
Evaluation
SS will be aware of the importance of eating healthy food.
SS will be aware of the categories of food which have to be consumed every day
SS will be able to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy food.
SS will know that healthy food, with vitamins, helps them think better and helps them improve their school performance.
SS will read food labels before buying the product and will be able to distinguish between harmful and harmless ingredients.
SS will be able to better communicate in their mother tongue.
SS will be able to work in teams and help each other.
Class: 5A
School 186, Elena Văcărescu 15, Cihoschi Street
Lesson: Let’s Eat Healthily!
Number of students involved: 22
Time:50’
LESSON PLAN
LESSON AIMS:
• To raise the students’ awareness of the existence of a wide range of unhealthy products on the market.• To encourage them to consume healthy food, organic if possible, food produced without the use of chemicals, artificial flavourings and harmful emulsifiers.
• To get them eat fewer sweets and to give up lollipops, crisps and candy which have nothing natural in them.
• To persuade them to give up drinking coke and other fizzy drinks which are a danger to their organism.
• To encourage them to have a balanced daily diet including cereal, fruit, vegetables, dairy products meat and only a small quantity of sweets.
• To encourage them to work in teams, to cooperate and communicate with each other.
MATERIALS:
Vegetables, fruit, cereal, sweets, artificial types of juice brought by the students, pictures with healthy/unhealthy food, glue, scissors, paper.The students took part in the following activities:
Activity 1
Aim: to warm the students up, to motivate them for the lesson.
Procedure:
1. T asks them questions about what they have eaten lately, about what they ate before coming to school, etc.
2. SS speak about how they feel, energetic or less energetic and decide if this has to do with healthy eating habits.
Activity 2
Aims:• to raise the students’ awareness of the existence of a wide range of unhealthy products on the market.
• To persuade them to give up drinking coke and other fizzy drinks which are a danger to their organism.
Procedure:
1. They discuss about an experiment they had to do at home: they had put a piece of chicken liver in a glass of coke and in the morning they observed the results.
2. SS compare their conclusions
Activity 3
Aims:• To encourage them to consume healthy food, organic if possible, food produced without the use of chemicals, artificial flavourings and harmful emulsifiers.
• To get them eat fewer sweets and to give up lollipops, crisps and candy which have nothing natural in them.
• To encourage them to work in teams, to cooperate and communicate with each other.
Procedure:1. T chooses 2 desks: one for healthy food and one for unhealthy food.2. Each student places the food/the pictures with food on the right desk, explaining their choice.
Activity 4
Aim: to raise the students’ awareness of the existence of a wide range of unhealthy products on the market.Procedure:
1. T guides SS in talking the vitamins fruit and vegetables contain
2. SS read the labels of products such as salami, sausages and processed cheese, finding out about the artificial ingredients these products contain.
Activity 5
Aims:• To encourage them to have a balanced daily diet including cereal, fruit, vegetables, dairy products meat and only a small quantity of sweets.
• To encourage them to work in teams, to cooperate and communicate with each other.
Procedure:
1. SS cut out the pictures they brought
2. SS stick the pictures on bigger pieces of paper, showing which foods are healthy and which not.
3. SS put their posters on the noticeboard, in their classroom.
Evaluation
SS will be aware of the importance of eating healthy food.
SS will be aware of the categories of food which have to be consumed every day
SS will be able to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy food.
SS will know that healthy food, with vitamins, helps them think better and helps them improve their school performance.
SS will read food labels before buying the product and will be able to distinguish between harmful and harmless ingredients.
SS will be able to better communicate in their mother tongue.
SS will be able to work in teams and help each other.